Riley Mayes Poetry Out Loud Winner

Riley Mayes has won first place in Waynflete’s Poetry Out Loud Contest. Her moving recitations of “In a London Drawing Room” by George Eliot won Riley top honors in the school-wide competition held during the Upper School assembly on January 8.

As the winner of the school competition, Riley advances to the Regional contest to be held at City Theater in Biddeford on February 11, 2015 where she will compete with students from other southern Maine schools.

Each student recited a poem chosen from the Poetry Out Loud website, which provides a compilation of poems from different eras and traditions. Students participating in Thursday’s school-wide contest had advanced from classroom competitions.

The Poetry Out Loud National Recitation Contest is sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Poetry Foundation. Maine’s program is fostered by the Maine Arts Commission.